Confluent territories and overlapping sovereignties: Britain's nineteenth-century Indian empire in the Kumaon Himalaya

This article provides a locally grounded understanding of how geographies of sovereignty became established and called into question on the external frontiers of British imperial expansion. The empirical case study focuses on the Bhotiyas, trans-Himalayan traders who reside in several high valleys o...

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1. Verfasser: Bergmann, Christoph (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Journal of historical geography
Year: 2015, Jahrgang: 51, Pages: 88-98
ISSN:1095-8614
DOI:10.1016/j.jhg.2015.06.015
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.06.015
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748815001000
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